Upcoming Reset.

#1 - Nov. 15, 2013, 5:02 p.m.
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The upcoming reset should be a soft reset.

What does this mean? it means everyone’s MMR should be normalized according to the new entry MMR (I still think it should be around the range the 75% have). Additionally, people should not gain a spot on the board (or visible rank) until they have played at least 10 games.

Why? because:

  1. If we do a hard reset, we will have the gigantic clusterkitten of new players getting matched with veterans all over again. Nobody wants that.
  2. By moving new player entry to 75% they are in a place where they won’t get paired with or against people that have much more experience and understanding than they do, so they don’t sink whatever team they are on.

Oh and ranks 1-20 should not be allowed to play ranked Solo Queue.

#5 - Nov. 15, 2013, 8:16 p.m.
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you can’t normalize where people start on the leaderboards after a reset. it’ll look exactly the same as this leaderboard just with higher/lower mmr numbers.

Oblivion is right. Just adjusting the numbers won’t do much, if anything.

I hope by the next time we reset, if ever, we’ll have a much nicer way to deal with the problems Acandis.3250 mentioned. This is one of the reasons we were very resistant to the idea of an MMR reset.

#10 - Nov. 16, 2013, 2:29 a.m.
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Leaderboard rank = your order when sorted by MMR – decay.

The decision to not show MMR was made before leaderboards were a thing. I’d guess it’s related to how people treat rank, and Glicko is even harder to explain.

Personally, I’m all for transparency. I’d rather have a transparent system that’s documented than hide potential mistakes. Though an transparent system may mean less flexibility when it comes to making iterative changes because they’d need to be announced ahead of time.

#26 - Nov. 16, 2013, 5 p.m.
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Can we get a permanent leaderboard decay just for symbolic please? pretty please!

No. You’ll get something better, but you’ll have to wait to find out what that is. Sorry, it’s outside my control when the news will be posted.